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Putin's Kiss portrays contemporary life in Russia through the coming-of-age story of Masha, a middle-class Russian girl and a member of Nashi, a nominally ''anti-fascist'' movement whose members are expected to pledge their unswerving support to Vladimir Putin and all his policies. Extremely ambitious, the young Masha quickly rises to the top of Nashi, and is rewarded for her loyalty with an apartment, a car and frequent television appearances as a Nashi spokesperson, while attending Moscow State University. She begins to question her involvement with Nashi when she learns that a radical faction within the organization is supposedly responsible for attacks against political dissidents, and she finds herself faced with a very real dilemma when she befriends a group of journalists critical of Putin's government, one of whom is Oleg Kashin. When Oleg becomes the victim of a violent attack and barely makes it out of the hospital alive, Masha realizes that she must take a stand. In Russian with English subtitles.

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This documentary shows a great behind the scenes look at the NASHI youth movement in Russia that is not shown by the Russian ordained media. In many ways the NASHI youth movement is comparable to the Hitler youth movement in pre-WWII Germany, demonizing any who oppose the party line and intimidating them with beatings, prison and death for the simple crime of opposing their party line.

Though the documentary itself is average in quality, I believe people 20 years from now will look back at it in shock of how Russian youth followed the same disastrous path the youth of Germany followed in the 1930's.

Most of us have heard of the Hitler Youth movement and probably never thought that a major government would try to replicate such an organization in our lifetimes. "Putin's Kiss" shows how very senior members of the Putin Government have built a youth organization that looks a lot too much like the Hitler Youth movement for my liking, complete with banners and stage managed political "demonstrations". It also shows how such an organization can evolve in plain sight with seemingly innocent goals but be used to propagandize, to oppress and to punish any form of descent. It is a scary movie that has significant implications for America today.

A must view for those who wish not only to understand how Putin's Russia bamboozles its own people, but why the Russians are so easily brainwashed through the experience of a naive teenager, Masha Drokova an her experience with the "Nashi" ("Our's"). Frightening!